To bind
עִמֵּרStrong’s H6014immer (im-mer)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Immer is the Hebrew word usually translated “treat as a slave” and “binds sheaves”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.”
Meaning
- To bind sheaves(Piel) to gather
- To manipulate, deal tyrannically with(Hithpael) to treat as a slave
How it's translated
- you will treat as a slave 1
- and he will treat as a slave 1
- binds sheaves 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 24:7If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
- Psalms 129:7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Hebrew dictionary
עִמֵּר immer · to bind
1) to bind sheaves 1a) (Piel) to gather
עָמַר amar · to tyranise
1) to manipulate, deal tyrannically with 1a) (Hithpael) to treat as a slave
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIND, verb transitive
- To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
- To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
- To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot.
- To restrain in any manner.“He bindeth the floods from overflowing” Job 28:11
All definitions and other forms of “bind”
- To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage.“If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond” Numbers 30:2
- To confirm or ratify.“Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven” Matthew 16:19
- To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity.“Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years” Luke 13:16
- To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion.“I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem” Acts 20:22
- To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels.
- To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet.
- To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book.
- To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire.
- To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant.
- To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth.
BIND, verb intransitive
To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat.
- To grow or become costive.
- To be obligatory.
BIND, noun
A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it.
- A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole.
- Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.